Creating Christ Quotes

“The New Testament is anti-Semitic, not incidentally, not implicitly, but fundamentally and thematically. Anti-Semitism is its purpose. From its very origins, the New Testament is quite literally “anti-Semitism.” The “New Testament” is a rebuttal to the “Old Testament” written at a time of holy war between the Jews and Romans.”
― James S. Valliant, Creating Christ: How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity

“The message could not be more ironic if George Orwell had written it himself: the voice of totalitarian power invokes surrender as the ultimate victory for the conquered”
― James S. Valliant, Creating Christ: How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity

“Many may wonder why the subject of this book, if it is so readily observable, has never been explored in such comprehensive detail before in the 20 centuries since Christianity’s inception. One simple answer is that, since Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, it has only been legally possible in the last three centuries for anyone to publicly question Christianity’s origins without incurring a charge of heresy—for which a sentence of death was not uncommon.”
― James S. Valliant, Creating Christ: How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity